Cambodia
With a large percentage of the world’s population moving to urban areas, clean, affordable and timely supply of drinking and domestic water to its residents has become a priority. In most cities of the world, the primary responsibility of supplying drinking and domestic water lies with public utilities. It is a well known fact that water utilities around the world suffer from a series of...
This research report is one of five case studies commissioned by Oxfam GB on the impact of the global economic crisis on women in East Asian countries. In Cambodia, the economic downturn has severely affected the garment industry, in which women are vast majority of the work force, due to reduced demand for garments in the US and EU. Other affected sectors are tourism and construction....
East Asian governments have demonstrated in their response to the current global economic crisis that they have learned critical lessons from the major financial meltdown in the 1990s. They have provided timely stimulus packages and have proactively targeted those who generally are more vulnerable to shocks.
But have governments really understood the impact of the crisis on the...
Ecotourism has immense potential to help the global fight against poverty. A WTO initiated study concluded that in developing countries, particularly in the least developed countries, tourism is almost universally the leading source of economic growth, foreign exchange, investment and job creation.
Foreign exchange earnings from tourism have helped to narrow trade and foreign...
Large-scale forestry and tree plantation concessions in the Mekong region have been established in different historical periods, and in very different political contexts. In many cases, forest land concessions have been associated with land-use and livelihood conflicts with surrounding communities. Conflicts are typically based upon a local loss of access to customary resources, and are thus...
This book is the outcome of the study on the transitions in forest governance in seven countries viz. India, Nepal, Cambodia, the Philippines, Thailand, Viet Nam and China conducted by the Forest Conservation Project of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES).
It includes eight chapters : Chapter 1 is all about the introduction while the rest of the chapters deal...
M-POWER—the Mekong Program in Water, Environment and Resilience—is a programme of action research that aims to improve the quality of water governance in ways that support sustainable livelihoods in the Mekong Region. The acronym is a play on the verb “empower,” as this is an apt one-word description of motivation for engaging in action research about governance with a...
The project “Integrating Wetland Economic Values into River Basin Management” has the overall goal of more equitable, efficient and sustainable wetland and river basin management resulting from the practical application of environmental economics techniques and measures.
To help to achieve this goal, its immediate objectives are:
- To...
The Mekong plays an important role in ensuring the well-being of China, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam, as the major river supporting agriculture and many other economic activities in the region. It also brings regular floods to the region which, although sometimes damaging, are an integral part of the lives of many communities in the Mekong River basin. However, in recent...
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